Converting Blackmagic 4K files to Premiere Pro CS5/CS6/CC7

The Blackmagic Production Camera 4K is a complete self contained solution for shooting extremely high resolution Ultra HD 4K content. With a built in SSD recorder, it easily captures 4K in ProRes 422 (HQ) and compressed CinemaDNG files. As it claimed although, Blackmagic Production Camera 4K records directly to files that are compatible with editing software, meanwhile problems occurred when importing Blackmagic 4K to Adobe Premiere Pro- computer freezes, unsupported file format. So you may be wondering, how to edit Blackmagic 4K in Premiere Pro beautifully?

As far as we know, the latest version Premiere Pro CS6, CC7 usually can handle 4K files without much problem, but it is extremely hardware intensive. On the other hand, it is a complete nightmare to import Blackmagic 4K ProRes to Premiere Pro – it cannot recognize ProRes codec, and even worse than that is Adobe Premiere Pro(CC7) will import a .MOV file of any codec -Animation/ProRes, whatever doesn’t matter.

To solve the issues, you need to convert Blackmagic 4K video to MPEG-2 for Premiere Pro as primary delivery format. The process is surprisingly easy and can be done with the help of UFUWare HD Converter for Mac. With it, you can effortlessly encode/re-encode Blackmagic 4K ProRes footage for smoothly importing and editing in various non-linear editing systems (NLE), including Adobe Premiere Pro, Avid Media Composer, Final Cut Pro, iMovie, FCE and more. If you work Blackmagic 4K files in Adobe Premiere Pro on Windows, please get UFUWare HD Video Converter. Below is the detailed guide on transcoding Blackmagic 4K files to Premiere Pro friendly video formats.